Olympic Games/Catalogs
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General catalogs
- Summer Olympic Games venues - giving the year, venue, # of events, # of sports, # of competitors (men and women), and # of countries represented
- Winter Olympic Games venues - giving the year, venue, # of events, # of sports, # of competitors (men and women), and # of countries represented
- Summer Olympic Games records
- Winter Olympic Games records
Olympic medalists
Summer Games sports
In the list below, the official sport names as adopted by the IOC are used. This list contains only those sports on the program for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 2008.
- Aquatics
- Archery
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Canoe-kayak
- Cycling
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Football
- Gymnastics
- Handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Modern pentathlon
- Rowing
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Softball
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
Winter Games sports
- Alpine Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biathlon [r]: An athletic competition combining the sport activities of cross-country, or Nordic, skiing, and rifle shooting. [e]
- Bobsleigh [r]: Sled racing down an ice-covered run using a sledge which is mechanically steered and braked. There are two-men and four-men versions of the sled. [e]
- Cross Country Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Curling [r]: A game, invented in Scotland, which involves two teams of four players who slide a heavy stone towards a target at the opposite end of a long, narrow sheet of ice. [e]
- Figure Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ice Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Luge [r]: A small sled on which the contestant lies supine (face up, feet first). A race is against the clock down an ice-covered run. [e]
- Ski Jumping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Speed Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description